As a new resident at Riverton, I stopped in at the NYPL last month to look up this information. In the white pages of the early 1960s, David N Dinkins was listed as a resident of 2200 Madison Avenue. His law office was listed at 401 Broadway.

Dinkins pin

Riverton Ironwork

Clifford Alexander and Staff

Stuyvesant Town Fight- July 1947

A pitched battle, pitting what were then the forces of institutionalized racism against those insisting upon change, was concluded with the decision by the court exempting Metlife from any obligation to be race neutral in its selection process at that time.

Riverton Opens

Years of acrimonious negotiations arising from biased selection processes "downtown" gave rise to the settlement which resulted in the ostensiby integrated Riverton Housing Development